Home/Commodities/Newsfeed

Oil Falls After Saudi Production To Remain Unchanged

Share Print 0

West Texas Intermediate retreated from the biggest gain since September amid speculation a drop in Saudi Arabian oil supply to the market isn’t a signal for production cuts. Brent slid.

Futures are poised for a fourth weekly decline. Saudi Arabia’s crude supplies slipped last month even as production increased, a person familiar with the kingdom’s oil policy said yesterday. Both Brent and WTI have dropped more than 20 percent from this year’s high in June on concern global supply is outpacing demand.

“The Saudis are not cutting production,” said Tariq Zahir, a New York-based commodity fund manager at Tyche Capital Advisors. “They can tolerate low prices. We have plenty of supply and the trend for oil is to go lower.”

WTI for December delivery dropped $1.51, or 1.8 percent, to $80.58 a barrel at 10:34 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The volume of all futures traded was about 1 percent below the 100-day average. The contract climbed $1.57, or 2 percent, to $82.09 yesterday. Prices are down 2.6 percent this week.

Brent for December settlement decreased $1.13, or 1.3 percent, to $85.70 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Volume was 32 percent below the 100-day average. Futures are down 0.6 percent this week. The European benchmark crude traded at a premium of $5.04 to WTI on ICE, the most in a month, compared with $4.10 at the end of last week.

via Bloomberg

This article is for general information purposes only. It is not investment advice or a solution to buy or sell securities. Opinions are the authors; not necessarily that of OANDA Corporation or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers or directors. Leveraged trading is high risk and not suitable for all. You could lose all of your deposited funds.

Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
Alfonso Esparza

@alfonso_forex

Back to Top